Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-02-04
IMPLANTING TEETH.
A NEW DENTAL OPERATION OF GREAT
INTEREST.
TRANSFERRING TEETH INTO SOCK
ETs MADE FROM THE SOLID
BONE.

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ETs MADE FROM THE SOLID
BONE.
The process of transplanting and
of replanting teeth is at least 100
wears old. A new method, how
ever, of putting teeth where they
will do the most good has Just
come into the light of day and IS
being tested by dentists. 1t IS
known as implanting. Speaking
on this general subject, DIR. Nor
man w. Kingsley, president of the
Dental Society of the State OF New
York, said:
"There are three kinds of opera
tions involved in the planting OF
teeth, and they are known as re-
planting, transplanting, and i'm
planting. R planting is the opera
ton where the teeth are removed
and replaced in the same mouth
and the same sockets; transplantlng
consits in taking the teeth from
another mouth and placing them
in sockets from which the teeth OF
roots have recently been extracted;
and implantlng is the process OF
.tklng new sockets in the solid
bone or where the teeth have long
been extracted and the bone has
become solid and where the teeth
from other mouths or the same
mouth are implanted in the SOLID
bore. Transplanting and re-
planting are old methods one
of the earliest successes IN
them being that of John Hunter,
some hundred years ago. In MS
cxperiments he found that a tooth
recently removed appeared to grow
when transferred to 'he comb OF a
cock. and this and similar expert
meuts led him to conclude that a
tooth would grow in firmly when
surrounded by living tissues ana
his success in many instances led
to the process of transplantlng
teeth. Upon this was based the
plan of removing bad teeth ana
putting in their place fresh teeth
obtained from the mouth OF another
person. This tooth was placed IN
the newly made socket and IN more
recent times the tooth has been re-
moved, cleaned, the pulps removed
one or both, and then the tooth re-
placed in the same socket. Tins
latter is particularly the case where
the teeth have been knocked out
by accident or injury and they have
adhered.
"Implanting is of recent date
and probably originated with Ut
Younger of California. lie con
ceived the idea of making an ell
tirely new socket in the solid bone
and implanting there a tooth IRON
the same mouth or from another
person. As this process IS III It's eX
detrimental stage it is not possible
to tell yet how long teeth so I'M
planted will remain firm in the
sockets, bat apparently satisiacto-
ry results have been obtained; The
teeth in instances thus tar tried
when manipulated by n skllIe'
dentist, have taken vigorously t'
their new environments, and seem
ingly satisfactory results have en-
sued; yet as | said, 1t is impossible
as yet to say how long implanted
teeth will remain firm.
uTbis nrocess is based on th'
, theory that if the membrane which
, originally surrounded the tootI
still adheres to it, although 1t ha
become dried even, it will be reyl
, talized when the tooth is lmplante'
! in its new socket. Theories, no"
/ ever, are of little value, in the pres
} ent state of the experiment. StII
. the fact remains, Of which there !
no question, that teeth have bee
I implanted in these newly'mad
r sockets, have remained for man
, months and appear to have adhere
I vitally to the solid tissues SUI
| rounding them; they have 50 r'
t NAMED for eighteen months
Y have seen some cases where tn
I adhesion has been so complete Una
3 they wonld defy an expert to te
, which we're the implanted toet
| and which wece there originally a
| shown by the color and transluceI
Y cy of the teeth and the color an
Z. the hardness Of the gum, all
:. which we're quite that of the orli
4 inal teeth. .n-Neic York Tribune.
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